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US Playwright Ken Ludwig Gives £1 Million To Preserve Shakespeare Family Home
The author of the farce Lend Me a Tenor and the book for the Gershwin musical Crazy for You donated in order to fund...
Venezuelan TV News Agency Is Using AI-Created Avatars
Amid a harsh crackdown by the Maduro regime following an election he claims to have won but apparently lost badly, a news service called...
FBI Arrests Musician For Alleged $10 Million Scam With AI-Created Songs
"An indictment in Manhattan federal court said (Michael) Smith created thousands of accounts on streaming platforms so that he could stream (tens of thousands...
Fyre Festival II Is Coming, I Promise! Says The Producer Of The Original Fiasco
"Billy McFarland is a little over a year into planning Fyre Festival II, and he still doesn’t know where it’s going to be. Or...
The “Black List” Of Best Unproduced Screenplays Is Being Extended To Books
"The Black List … has morphed over two decades into a multifunctional web platform focused on screenplay development and discovery. … Now, with relations...
The Incredible Shrinking Writers’ Rooms Of Hollywood
"(Back) when networks would commission a season of 22 episodes of a sitcom or drama, these rooms would often boast a dozen or more...
Ron DeSantis’s Elimination Of Arts Funding Is Wrecking Arts Education In Florida
"Several of the more than 600 organizations that lost state funding (said) that their educational programming is the first thing they will have to...
Newport Art Museum Has Laid Off All Of Its Curators
With the layoff of all three curatorial staffers plus one patron-facing worker and the resignation of three more employees (one a senior manager), NAM...
Cooper Union Welcomes Back Its Seniors With A Surprise: Free Tuition!
"The incoming class of seniors at New York’s Cooper Union learned at today’s convocation ceremony that they would pay no tuition for their final...
British Prosecutors Drop Indecent Assault Case Against Harvey Weinstein
"The Crown Prosecution Service said on Thursday that it decided to discontinue proceedings against Weinstein because there is 'no longer a realistic prospect of...
Bellevue Arts Museum In Washington State Gives Up And Shuts Down
"Nearly seven months after launching an emergency fundraising campaign to stave off a 'dire' financial crisis, the Bellevue Arts Museum is closing its doors...
People Are Finally Returning To U.S. Movie Theaters. But Will They Keep Coming?
For winter and spring 2024, box office was down 30% from the previous year. So the fact that this summer was down only 10%...
One Of The Satirical Sculptors The Gao Brothers Is Arrested In Beijing For Slandering...
Gao Zhen, who had moved to New York and was in Beijing visiting family, is the first artist charged under the 2018 "Heroes and...
Auditions For Drama School: Fair Or Unfair?
They're certainly difficult, especially since COVID. High school drama programs rarely prepare students well for conservatory work, including the audition process, and a small...
Niger’s Modern Master Of Mud-Brick Architecture, Mariam Issoufou Kamara
Like her older colleagues Diébédo Francis Kéré (a Pritzker Prize winner) of Burkina Faso and Yasmeen Lari of Pakistan, Mariam Issoufou Kamara focuses on...
Texas Librarian’s Lawsuit For Wrongful Termination May Proceed, Federal Judge Rules
"U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman — the same judge who, in March 2023, ordered several books banned by Llano County officials returned to library...
Japanese Dancer Wins Top Flamenco Prize, And Part Of Audience Gets Predictably Outraged
Never mind that Junko Hagiwara (stage name "La Yunko") has lived and studied in Seville for 20 years. Dance critics, fortunately, have been unanimous...
Britain’s Public Is More Proud Of Its Arts Than Even Its Sports: Survey
"The UK‘s accomplishments in the arts are something its public prides above all else, according to a new study, while fondness for British history...
Netflix-Style Memberships — A Better Business Model For Orchestras Than Subscriptions?
"You pay a monthly membership fee ... that entitles you to attend however much you’d like. As with a gym or a streaming service,...
Gustavo Dudamel Says Wherever His Career Takes Him, He’s Never Leaving L.A.
"Maybe the New York Philharmonic can, as Paris Opera couldn't, become a new family. But he launched his career in L.A. He grew up...
Rebels Have Looted National Museum Of Sudan: Report
"Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have reportedly looted the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum and smuggled some of its artifacts across the...
Alvin Ailey Gets A Show At The Whitney Museum
"One of the most ambitious shows the museum has ever presented — six years in the making and bigger than any Whitney biennial —...
Despite Injury And Long Recovery, Ian McKellen Does Not Intend To Retire
"I shall just keep at it as long as the legs and the lungs and the mind keep working," says the 85-year-old actor. As...
Staatsballett Berlin Director Christian Spuck Reflects On His First Year On The Job
"We’re the only company in the world that performs in three different opera houses (in one city). … One-hundred-and-twenty people work at this institution....
Simon Verity, 79, Master Stone Mason Who Led Work At New York’s St. John...
"As a sculptor he contributed to cathedrals both old and young, from survivors of the Middle Ages such as Exeter and Wells to the...
